Philosophy and the Passions: Towards a History of Human Nature - Brossura

Meyer, Michel; Barsky, Robert F.

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ISBN 10: 0271020326 ISBN 13: 9780271020327

Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

The subject of the passions has always haunted Western philosophy and, more often than not, aroused harsh judgments. For the passions represent a force of excess and lawlessness in humanity that produces troubling, confusing paradoxes.

Michel Meyer provides new insight into an age-old dilemma: Does passion torture people because it blinds them, or, on the contrary, does it permit them to apprehend who and what we really are?

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L'autore:

Michel Meyer is Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of Brussels and the University of Mons. He is the author of many books, includingFrom Logic to Rhetoric, From Metaphysics to Rhetoric, Meaning and Reading, Of Problematology, Questions and Questioning, and Rhetoric, Language, and Reason(1994, also published by Penn State Press).

Robert F. Barsky is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author ofConstructing a Productive Other: Discourse Theory and the Convention Refugee Hearings, Introduction á la théorie littéraire, and Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent.

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Book by Michel Meyer

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• Editore: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0271020326
• ISBN 13: 9780271020327
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 295